At about 8:45 A.M. this morning, I got an Email for our city's 'Listserver' program that I feel EVERYONE needs to sign up for.
In today's 'episode' came the drawings for an upgrade for more on-campus parking spaces at Marymount College, in Rancho Palos Verdes.
First, here is a link to various articles concerning Marymount College in R.P.V. via Planning and Zoning. It provided information about a wide variety of topics related to Marymount College and its plans in the near term and drawn out over time.
Now, here is the link to the drawings submitted for discussion concerning a new parking lot that may just get built in place of the existing playing field on the college's Palos Verdes Drive East main campus.
http://www.palosverdes.com/rpv/planning/marymount/PARKING-LOT-PROJECT-PLANS-3-16-2012.pdf
According to information supplied by our Planning Department, the drawings illustrate a new parking lot area that fits into the Conditions of Approval for The Marymount College Facilities Expansion Project, approved in 2010.
According to 'rpvlisterserver' our City Council is scheduled to consider the plans at its April 17 meeting. (Probably it would be more accurate to consider that our City Council may begin to consider the item at its April 17 meeting.)
I feel everyone should take a look at the drawings and hopefully consider this a good thing for all of us.
It is a good thing, I feel for Marymount's reputation because it just may be a demonstration as to their compliance with calls for getting college-associated vehicles from parking on public roads.
It also serves as one piece of evidence that Marymount's administration MAY finally try to make improvements on their R.P.V. campus that are part of the Expansion Project's goals.
Does this mean that the entire Expansion Project will truly get underway, with a real path towards completion? I don't know.
What will surely be lost is the large playing field now being used on Marymount's campus. Whether we will ever see a new field constructed on the west side of the campus remains to be seen.
Along with this latest news about going forward POSSIBLY with a new parking area, is some new work on utilities for buildings on the campus. Improving utilities for buildings where some of them may be slated for demolition or major reconstruction with the Expansion Project's guidelines.
I'm going to tentatively give positive credit and 'warm fuzzies' to the folks at Marymount College who have decided to move forward with at least a small portion of what was approved for doing, some time ago.
To me it is a step in the correct direction. Taking parked cars off the streets near Marymount's campus is a good thing for everyone, I think. It provides more security for those who have their cars off public streets and in a parking lot. It offers better traffic management by both the college and the city. It allows more room to maneuver on Crest Road, a road the L.A.County Fire Department uses when necessary.
All in all, I think this is a good, yet small step forward with The Marymount College Facilities Expansion Project.
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